SPORTS
Saturday, October 31, 2015
College Basketball
In this Feb.
21, 2015,
file photo,
Oregon
State men’s
basket-
ball coach
Wayne
Tinkle
yells from
the bench
during the
second half
of an NCAA
college
basket-
ball game
against
Colorado in
Corvallis.
AP Photo/Don
Ryan, File
OSU no longer Pac-12 surprise
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated pRess
CORVALLIS — With
no returning starters and
a new coach installing his
own system, very little was
expected of Oregon State
last season.
So there was genuine
surprise around the league
when the Beavers went on a
tear at home, winning their
¿rst 14 games at Gill Coli-
seum. Oregon State would
win 15 total games at home,
a new single-season record.
The Beavers ¿nished
17-14 overall and 8-10 in the
Pac-12. Not bad for a team
that was expected to ¿nish
last in the league at the start
of the season.
Now starting his second
year, coach Wayne Tinkle
knows that expectations are
raised and that opponents
will be wary, too.
“I don’t think anybody’s
going to look past a team. But
we knew we set some things
in motion that people were
going to be maybe a little
more ready for us going into
this year, and then you add to
it that we had a pretty good
recruiting class,” Tinkle said
at the conference’s annual
media day.
All ¿ve starters return
from last season’s team
and the Beavers brought in
one of their best recruiting
classes ever. The media that
covers that Pac-12 picked
Oregon State to ¿nish sixth
this season.
The Beavers certainly
hope to be able to shoot a bit
more now that they’ve got
a year together. Last season
they averaged just 60.9
points per game, worst in
the Pac-12. That was partly
due to the personnel that
Tinkle had — the team held
open tryouts before his ¿rst
season to ¿ll available roster
spots.
“Now with added depth
and talent, certainly offen-
sively doesn’t mean we’re
going to take quick bad shots,
but we will look to score
a little bit more and score
more off of our defense and
be more aggressive there,”
he said.
LIKE FATHER LIKE
SON: Gary Payton II, whom
social media refers to as
GP2, returns for his senior
season in hopes of leading
his team to the NCAA Tour-
nament — just like his dad.
Payton averaged 13.4
points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.2
assists, 3.1 steals and 1.2
blocked shots, and earned
Pac-12 Defensive Player of
the Year honors.
Payton looked at jumping
to the NBA early, but
ultimately decided to stick
around.
“I think bringing Oregon
State back to the tournament
would mean a lot, not just for
me, but the city of Corvallis,
and just the town, and most
important the school and
the fans and everybody who
supports it for so long,”
Payton said.
LIKE FATHER LIKE
SON, PART 2: Prized recruit
Tres Tinkle will make his
debut this season for his
dad and the Beavers. The
6-foot-7 younger Tinkle
averaged 24.8 points, 10.7
rebounds and 2.2 assists as a
senior last season at Hellgate
High School in Missoula,
Montana.
However, he’s coming
off a stress fracture in his
foot that kept him out of the
summer workouts.
“But he’s been out there
the last couple of weeks,
and to be honest, after the
¿rst day I had to go up to
my of¿ce and pinch myself
afterward because it just
kind of hit me all at once that
here I am coaching my son
now for the ¿rst time,” the
elder Tinkle said.
MORE FANS IN THE
SEATS: Last season’s
surprising success gave
Oregon State a big boost at
the gate. Average attendance
was 5,612, a 42 percent
increase over the previous
season. The Beavers did
even better in league play,
averaging 6,988 fans.
East Oregonian
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With Young gone, Oregon
looks to others for offense
By ANNE M. PETERSON
Associated Press
Coach Dana Altman
maintains that Oregon’s
offense last season wasn’t all
about Joe Young.
Young averaged 19.8
points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.7
assists last season for the
Ducks, and was named the
Pac-12 Player of the Year as
the league’s scoring leader.
He has since moved on to
the NBA’s Indiana Pacers.
But Altman, named the
league coach of the year after
leading the team to a 26-10
overall record, pointed to
senior transfer Dylan Ennis,
top returning scorers Elgin
Cook and Dillon Brooks,
and top returning rebounder
Dwayne Benjamin, as the
remedy for Young’s departure.
“I think offensively we’ll
be a balanced team with a
number of guys who can
score. We’re going to have
to guard better. We’re going
to have to do a better job on
the boards. But I think offen-
sively we’ve got a number
of guys that can step up and
score a basket,” Altman said
at Pac-12 media day.
Altman was named the
conference’s Coach of the
Year after leading his team to
its third straight appearance in
the NCAA Tournament. The
Ducks beat Oklahoma State
in their opening game before
losing to Wisconsin for the
second straight season.
Oregon’s
conference
nemesis last season was
Arizona, which defeated the
Ducks 80-52 for the Pac-12
tournament title, and won
both regular-season games.
“I think since we have
more returners, we kind of
know what to expect, how to
come into practice and what
we need to be doing, what
we need to accomplish, and
it’s a lot more intense. All
our guys are competing, and
we just know how important
every practice is,” said Cook,
who averaged 13.0 points
and 5.2 rebounds last season.
REMEMBERING
AP Photo/Chris Pietsch, File
In this Feb. 8, 2015, file photo, Oregon men’s basket-
ball coach Dana Altman gestures to his team during
the second half of an NCAA college basketball game
against Washington State in Eugene,.
PEARL HARBOR: The
Ducks will play a game
against the U.S. Naval
Academy at Joint Base Pearl
Harbor-Hickam on Dec. 7,
Pearl Harbor Day. The game
is part of a series of events
marking the 74th anniversary
of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
“Our team had an oppor-
tunity two years ago to go to
South Korea and play on an
Army base, and I thought it
meant a lot to our players.
I know it meant a lot to our
staff,” Altman said. “So
when the opportunity came
up to go play on December
7th and observe that tragedy,
I was all set to go.”
The game will be held at
Bloch Arena, which survived
the attack.
ENNIS IMPACT?: Ennis
played a season at Rice
before two seasons at Villa-
nova, last season’s Big East
champion.
Even though Young
was a shooting guard, he
ran Oregon’s offense last
season. The 6-foot-2 Ennis
is poised to take over that
responsibility at point guard.
Last season he averaged 9.9
points, 3.7 rebounds and
3.5 assists per game for the
Wildcats.
OH CANADA: Brooks,
who averaged 11.5 points
per game for the Ducks last
season, played this summer
for his native Canada, both in
the U19 FIBA World Cham-
pionships, where he was the
tournament’s second-leading
scorer with 18.8 points, and
then with the senior national
team for the Pan Am Games
in Toronto.
GIVING HOOPS ITS
DUE: Oregon’s basketball
team has been overshad-
owed in recent years by
the success of the school’s
football team, which went
to the national championship
game last season.
Altman said the Ducks are
eager to elevate the status of
basketball at Oregon, too. The
process has already started
with three straight trips to the
NCAA Tournament.
“We just have to do our
part: We have to grow, we
have to play an exciting
brand of basketball, we have
to win. We’ve got to continue
to get better,” Altman said.
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